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The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze the annual cost of operation including depreciation of movable capital equipment for educating one student in each curriculum of selected community colleges and to show the relationship of costs of vocational-technical curricula to the cost for common baccalaureate oriented curricula.
A stratified sample of eight community colleges was drawn from those that had been in operation for at least five years.
These data indicate that a majority of the courses offered in highly specialized curricula in both the occupational and baccalaureate categories were more expansive than those courses that were common to a wide variety of curricula.
This study supports differential program funding to assure continued development of high quality vocational-technical programs in community colleges.
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Warren, J.T., Anderson, E.F. & Hardin, T.L. Differential costs of curricula in Illinois public junior colleges: Some implications for the future. Res High Educ 4, 59–67 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00991461
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